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Any Way To Manually Tell Watch I Am Going To Sleep?

My old Garmin Fenix 3 HR had a menu option where it allowed you to choose "Go to sleep" so it would know that you were going to bed or taking a nap and it would do better with immediately detecting your sleep and tracking it.

I have a fairly erratic sleep schedule(usually only about 6 hours a night), particularly in terms of the different from the weeknights vs the weekend nights and i have a large range of hours assigned to my sleep schedule in my watch's profile (1 AM to 11 AM), but i notice that sometimes at night when i'm still awake at night i see my pulse oximeter running as evidenced by the red light on my heart rate sensor being on.

Is there any way to manually tell my watch that I'm going to sleep so i don't need to have such a large range of hours setup as my sleep schedule?

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0 nik.shersh over 2 years ago

On the latest beta version (13.15b) a new control "Sleep mode" has appeared in the watch menu Settings > Appearance > Controls > Add new.

Perhaps this is what you are looking for. I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure.

0 partyman66 over 2 years ago in reply to nik.shersh

Oh cool...... i'm not on the Beta otherwise i'd like to try it.

With the betas, can you downgrade/revert back to the mainline release branch firmware?

0 nik.shersh over 2 years ago in reply to partyman66

Yes, rollback is possible.

forums.garmin.com/.../how-to-return-to-live-software

0 jmto over 2 years ago in reply to nik.shersh

How? That talks about .zip that was the previous way of having betas. I don't have any idea where one could get the firmware to downgrade.

But 13.15 works nice for me.

0 derek87 over 2 years ago

i think, unfortunately that the night mode is simply a low intensity simple watch face that activates when you enter your sleep/DND hours. the watch face is the outlined digital hour and minutes (like the default watch face) with date and simple indicators (battery, alarm, etc.) all faint white with black background. it's meant to make things less jarring if your watch is lit during the night. (at least that's what i discovered in my quick testing under 13.15beta)

0 partyman66 over 2 years ago in reply to derek87

I'm pretty sure that it also has something to do with the pulse oximeter being used if you have sleep tracking turned on. I haven't tried taking a nap or going to sleep outside of my profile's configured sleep schedule with my watch on yet, so i'm not sure if the watch detects sleep outside of the expected sleeping range on its own based on a lack of movement and low pulse/respiration.

0 nik.shersh over 2 years ago in reply to derek87

0 partyman66 over 2 years ago in reply to nik.shersh

Do you know if you can also assign this function as a hotkey to one of the physical buttons?

0 nik.shersh over 2 years ago in reply to partyman66

There is no such function in hotkeys at the moment.